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🏕 Free copy of my cookbook + backcountry survey!
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Hi Reader, I hope your week is off to a great start! You may have seen on Instagram that I ran a survey about backcountry camping earlier this month. To my surprise, hundreds of people responded to it and the results have been quite interesting so far! If you didn't get the memo about the survey, it's still open - click here to complete the survey and you'll receive a free copy of The Voyageur's Backcountry Cookbook as a thank you 😊 I wrote this digital cookbook early in the pandemic to consolidate all of the tips and recipes I'd accumulated from many years of canoe guiding. The cookbook has ~70 pages on packing tips, meal planning, food prep, recipes and more. It's available on my website for $15, but I'm giving it away for free to anyone kind of enough to take a few minutes to complete this survey.
Why am I running this survey?Good question! As you already know (because I talk about it endlessly), I create a lot of outdoor education and route planning resources. This is a passion project of mine (not a job), so what keeps me going is knowing that people are using and benefiting from the resources! I love getting emails or DMs on how someone used the resources to plan an epic trip or spend their first night outside. Now that I have a (short) break from work and can dedicate a little more time to the sites, I want to know what resources will be the most useful. Where should I focus my efforts? Where are there gaps or pain points in how we plan backcountry camping trips right now? Thus, I'm running this survey. It's pretty short and the questions all concern how you plan backcountry camping trips. What about the survey results?I'm going to leave the survey open until the end of the month / early October. Then I'll do a final analysis of the results. So far I've been quite surprised by some of the results, so I'll share a few of the interesting findings with everyone in a newsletter next month. Anyway, that is all for now. As always, feel free to send me a message if you have any questions or comments. Enjoy the start of the fall colours! Happy adventuring, Mikaela |
Mikaela | Voyageur Tripper
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